Auctions Auction Veteran Simon de Pury Explains the Bold Business Model for His Latest Auction, Designed to Benefit Artists Above All The auction presents works exclusively by women artists made in the past three years. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 9, 2022
Auctions Pew! Pew! Han Solo’s Original ‘Blaster’ Gun From ‘Star Wars’ Is Heading to Auction, With an Ewok-Sized Low Estimate of $300,000 The prop DL-44 Heavy Blaster Pistol is estimated to go for up to half a million—but could fetch much more. By Caroline Goldstein, Jul 28, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s Will Host an Auction in Singapore for the First Time in 15 Years as the Art Business Seeks to Cultivate New Asian Clientele The global art market is hustling to diversify its activities in Asia. By Vivienne Chow, Jul 21, 2022
Auctions One of the First of Its Kind, Phillips’s Generative Art Sale Fails to, Ahem, Generate Strong Sales, Dampened in Part by June’s Crypto Crash The art historical, highly curated sale failed to soar, and many works did not find buyers. By Anna Sansom, Jul 21, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s Will Shoot for the Moon with a Multimillion-Dollar Sale of Buzz Aldrin’s Personal Belongings Later This Month Included in the sale is the broken circuit breaker that almost doomed Apollo 11—and the pen Aldrin used to fix it. By Artnet News, Jul 19, 2022
Auctions A Vampire-Hunting Kit Purportedly From the 19th Century Sells for $20,000 in the U.K., Exploding Its Meager $2,400 Estimate The hunting kit went to a collector in the U.K. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 15, 2022
Auctions Phillips Announces a Record $746 Million in Auction and Private Sales for First Half of 2022, Another Sign of the Peaking Art Market The auction house also revealed the opening of its first Los Angeles outpost. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 15, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s Sold a Jean Prouvé Table for $1.6 Million Last Month—But Didn’t Mention It Might Contain Asbestos An eagle-eyed antique dealer realized there was more to the "Granipoli concrete" table than met the eye. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 14, 2022
Auctions Christie’s Reports Total Sales Hit $4.1 Billion in the First Half of 2022, Its Best Performance Since 2015 Still, clouds were gathering on the horizon with respect to Asian buyers and NFT sales. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 12, 2022
Auctions Pop Star Halsey Is Auctioning Off Five Drawings She Made Live Onstage to Benefit Reproductive Rights The works are expected to fetch around $7,000 each at Sotheby's. By Vittoria Benzine, Jul 12, 2022
Auctions New Analog Recording of Bob Dylan’s ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ Makes Nearly $2 Million at Auction This version of the famous song features a full band, and is the only copy that will ever be manufactured or released. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 8, 2022
Auctions Dino-mania Shows No Sign of Extinction as Sotheby’s Offers a Rare Gorgosaurus Skeleton Estimated up to $8 Million One of the best preserved specimens of the prehistoric apex predator is coming to auction for the first time. By Dorian Batycka, Jul 6, 2022
Auctions A Painting of a Church Choir by Ernie Barnes—This Spring’s Breakout Auction Star—Could Fetch Upwards of $700,000 at Bonhams This Fall The work was commissioned by the artist's friend and has never before been seen by the public By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jul 6, 2022
Auctions Simon de Pury Is Launching a Novel Series of Auctions Where All Artworks Will Be Consigned Directly From Artists and Galleries Designed to help artists benefit from speculation, the first event takes place on August 5 and will be led by a digital avatar of de Pury. By Artnet News, Jul 5, 2022
Auctions Just in Time for Independence Day, Sotheby’s Is Auctioning a Crucial Precursor to the Bill of Rights That Could Sell for $5 Million The sale of the historic document will benefit the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums, with locations around the country. By Dorian Batycka, Jul 1, 2022
